Ashes 2021-22
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ABC News Sport lead story announces a rather more pressing dilemma for the once-was-ACB than batsman selections in Sydney.
The author, journalist Russell Jackson, has written an outstanding, thorough exposé - an absolute cracker - centred on predators and an Australian Under 19s tour of India and Sri Lanka in 1985. The team included Reiffel, Moody and Gavin Robertson from Graham Hughes' Talkin' Sport radio program - this bit is important because they still have a prominent involvement in sport and that may lend momentum to public interest in tracking the alleged mongrels down.
The ACB and its consultant lawyers will have been back to work early this year. This outlines why:
... Mitchell ... now has only hazy recollections of the night in question. ... in Colombo ... he was not just ill but barely conscious from an injection administered by the Australian team doctor, Malcolm McKenzie ... (whose) ... role in whatever followed is also now being scrutinised by the AFP. Another barrier has been the wall of silence around a tour considered infamous in cricket circles, and after which the national coach, Robert Clyde Bitmead, now 79, vanished from elite coaching ranks forever. In an interview with ABC Sport, Bob Bitmead denied that he sexually assaulted Jamie Mitchell , and said the events of the tour were unrelated to his departure as coach of the Australian Under-19s. Mitchell and his teammates say that Bitmead's disappearance was never explained by the Australian Cricket Board (now Cricket Australia), and say that as the sport's peak body, it needs to be transparent in its investigation of the matters raised by Mitchell's story.```Read the whole thing, the series of events is alarming. The dereliction of duty by the ACB at the time is world's best, award winning stuff. The tour manager, Jack Bennett, got a pointless OAM for services to cricket in 2003 - they dished 'em out for abject failure, simply astonishing.
The betrayal of trust by the three individuals appointed to protect naive teenagers away from home is another level altogether in my book. One of the predators has carked it but the other remains available for punishment.
@mick-gold-coast-qld that article is a harrowing but important read. Saw it yesterday when one of the Grade Cricketer lads retreated it. Sounds like a horrendous open secret that has somehow stayed under the carpet for 37 years. Some of the stuff that coach was up to was horrific...
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@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
Well, good news for England:
Maybe a draw is on the cards!
Only 27 on Sunday ?
Pffft it was over 30 in the Hutt yesterday and will be today.
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
Well, good news for England:
Maybe a draw is on the cards!
Only 27 on Sunday ?
Pffft it was over 30 in the Hutt yesterday and will be today.
Yeah but nobody gives a fuck about the Hutt.
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@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
Well, good news for England:
Maybe a draw is on the cards!
Only 27 on Sunday ?
Pffft it was over 30 in the Hutt yesterday and will be today.
Yeah but nobody gives a fuck about the Hutt.
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
Well, good news for England:
Maybe a draw is on the cards!
Only 27 on Sunday ?
Pffft it was over 30 in the Hutt yesterday and will be today.
Yeah but nobody gives a fuck about the Hutt.
Your best post ever. May as well stop for the rest of the year cos you won’t beat this one.
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@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
Well, good news for England:
Maybe a draw is on the cards!
Only 27 on Sunday ?
Pffft it was over 30 in the Hutt yesterday and will be today.
Yeah but nobody gives a fuck about the Hutt.
Your best post ever. May as well stop for the rest of the year cos you won’t beat this one.
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
Well, good news for England:
Maybe a draw is on the cards!
Only 27 on Sunday ?
Pffft it was over 30 in the Hutt yesterday and will be today.
Yeah but nobody gives a fuck about the Hutt.
Your best post ever. May as well stop for the rest of the year cos you won’t beat this one.
I'm just warming up.
Like Bangladesh.
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@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
Well, good news for England:
Maybe a draw is on the cards!
Only 27 on Sunday ?
Pffft it was over 30 in the Hutt yesterday and will be today.
Yeah but nobody gives a fuck about the Hutt.
Your best post ever. May as well stop for the rest of the year cos you won’t beat this one.
I'm just warming up.
Like Bangladesh.
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
Well, good news for England:
Maybe a draw is on the cards!
Only 27 on Sunday ?
Pffft it was over 30 in the Hutt yesterday and will be today.
Yeah but nobody gives a fuck about the Hutt.
Your best post ever. May as well stop for the rest of the year cos you won’t beat this one.
I'm just warming up.
Like Bangladesh.
Fuck you bloody
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So only one change for each side. Khawaja replaces Head, Broad replaces Robinson.
Hazlewood not ready to return yet so Boland has a chance to ruin his stats
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So only one change for each side. Khawaja replaces Head, Broad replaces Robinson.
Hazlewood not ready to return yet so Boland has a chance to ruin his stats
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@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
@duluth won't matter with this rain.
Our twelfth man and one I hoped would have been playing from the word go. :angry_face:
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@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
@duluth won't matter with this rain.
Is it settling in for the day? Or is just going to be an on/off day?
@duluth said in Ashes 2021-22:
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
@duluth won't matter with this rain.
Is it settling in for the day? Or is just going to be an on/off day?
I think the latter - was hammering down at my place 20 minutes ago, now the sun is threatening to break through. That's what would have happened at the SCG about 30-45 minutes ago
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR714.loop.shtml#skip
Rain is moving in from the east in waves with possible thunderstorms predicted. Reckon they might see a bit of play early but it would be a fluke, and not for long.
Then again, it could break up offshore and just be a muggy bastard of a day perfect for swing. Win the toss and bowl.
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@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
Wider shot shows what is moving in
Ahhhh nuts!! We just put Polly in the paddock for a 2 week spell!!!!
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Play has started with Australia winning the toss and batting. Bit of nip and swing early, with 4.3 overs before more rain. This will be the story of today.
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR713.loop.shtml#skip
It is basically coming in straight from the east, so we'll get an hour or so in and then more rain as the next band hits:
